The Cleveland Plain Dealer is a pathetic, LLL rag.
Big pressure from the Demomachine in NE Ohio.
Big pressure from the Right? Cancel subscriptions. I did.
The Plain Dealer is one of the few papers that hasn't endorsed a candidate but it is well known the owner supports Bush. The report here is that these registrations were identified via the Post Office as "un-deliverable" because of invalid addresses. The BoE in Cleveland had sent out notices to all new registrants to inform them of their voting precinct and other information they would need. The 17,000 registrations were identified because those notices couldn't be delivered as addressed. To my knowledge, at least from the local news, there is no breakdown as to party.
I may be behind on late breaking news on this as I am at work and have no source here, but that is how I understand it.